1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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I’m so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I’ve never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
Its not even a distro. Its arch with dotfiles. Literally.
No repos, no custom packages, etc. Just arch with sloppy dotfiles.
They have repos now, but nothing in them is too advanced, and they absolutely do not deserve the money. GNU/Linux Mint offers THREE great desktop experiences, which are not kitsch slop (even if you don’t like them, they’re very high-quality) and have a much smaller budget.
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You can hate DHH, but that’s a straight up lie. They have repos, custom packages. They have an ISO installer, mirrors, even a custom kernel. If that’s not a distro then what is?
Uhm…
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down
Yeah but Bitwarden is forkable
There is also Vaultwarden which is basically a drop in for Bitwarden
now we need a fork/replacment for their shitty clients that have unreliable offline functionality and were on an EOL Electron for like 3 months, and for rbw which hasn’t been updated in ages and has compatibility issues with bitwarden.com now
There’s KeyGuard, but the license is simply “All rights reserved.” Source available, non foss?
https://github.com/AChep/keyguard-app?tab=License-1-ov-file
Yeah no thanks
I hope someone makes a replacement rather than a fork, i reallly hate Electron, we need to hope for a fork of the browser extension too
(Before anyone says anything: yes i thought of making it myself but i don’t really have expirience in security stuff and fluff so i’d rather wait for someone expirienced to do it)
Agreed, Electron has so much weird behavior and is a bloated slow mess. My latest annoyance with Electron is that it has the keyrings hardcoded to the desktop environment instead of going through the proper DBus APIs which of course breaks on my own desktop environment and I have to add a flag to all of my Electron apps to work around this.
I must be confusing vaultwarden with another bitwarden compatible thing and thought this is the one I have to host a server myself.
Probably better that I do that tbh
that’s right, vaultwarden is the server. It’s not a bad idea to host it yourself, but this is kinda a critical service, and the clients are not too good in keeping the data accessible if the server goes down. so, choose wisely. there are also unofficial public bitwarden servers you can use. if that sounds better, choose one that hosts multiple services and has a community around it, those have a better chance of being kept alive.
My thought process is that I set up the server on my home computer as the main base, and have that occasionally sync to my other devices such as phone and laptop, and sync back to it if I do any changes in those. The remote devices should have local database because my main computer will not always be online.
How feasible is that and how easy is that to set up?
Or should I just set up keepass instead since IIRC that’s one of the ways it can be set up.
yeah, about that. none of the official bitwarden clients allow editing if the server is not accessible. they didn’t want to have to deal with conflict resolution
sounds like a better idea. but synchronization wise, conflict resolution has to happen somewhere. like when you edit an entry on two devices, and later they try to sync both changes at once. Fortunately tye keepass format has a more comprehensive entry edit history than bitwarden, so clients can figure it out.
keepassxc on linux supports something called keeshare, check how is compatibility for that with your mobile keepass app. original keepass on windows supports some kind of automatic merging on saving and loading, maybe keepassxc does that too? if you end up using synthing, conflicts could occur at that layer, which is not hard but not so straightforward to handle, but keeshare is supposed to help with that I think.
Yeah, I feared that bitwarden might not like that with my scenario.
I’ve been putting off keepass ever since I found lastpass all those years ago and then learned about keepass. I guess I have to dedicate a weekend some time reading and setting everything up keepass between my Linux home base computer, android phone and grumble Windows work laptop.